Trump – David Haldane

June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022 It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]

February 10, 2022

Who Do You Trust?

By David Haldane Feb. 10, 2022 When I was a college student in Southern California, the name Ferdinand Marcos evoked visions of hell. Wasn’t […]

April 8, 2021

Crossing Borders

By David Haldane April 8, 2021 One of the happiest days of my life was the one in which my Filipino fiancé arrived in America. […]

February 18, 2021

Trump and Duterte

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2021 I felt honored that she asked me. An old friend, a Filipino journalist named Effe Barker now living in […]

February 4, 2021

Boarded Windows

By David Haldane Feb. 4, 2021 The boards are everywhere. Driving along the nighttime streets, you see them on the storefront windows. Some stand nailed […]

January 21, 2021

Old Friends

By David Haldane Jan. 21, 2021 It had been nearly two years since we’d last met. Heather and I go way back. Sometime in the […]

January 14, 2021

Second American Revolution?

By David Haldane Jan. 14, 2021 I couldn’t believe it was real. As thousands of protestors converged on the US capitol building in Washington, D.C., […]

November 19, 2020

Blood Pressure: Why Mine is Lower in the Philippines

By David Haldane Nov. 19, 2020 At first, I didn’t believe it. “Your blood pressure is very high,” the doctor said, looking several degrees sterner […]

October 29, 2020